Improvement in clamps



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OLIVER LPAYNn, oFBATAVIA,1LL1N.or-s.

Letters Patent No. 92,642, dated July 13, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN cLAMPs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may conce/ra Be it known that I, OLIVER L. PAYNE, of thetown of Batavia, and county of Kane,in the-State of Illinois,

have invented a new and useful Machine or Press, which, in connection wit-ha graduated and tabularl scale of dimensions and sizes, isdesigned to facilitate and systematize the manufacture of raised-top-coftins, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact'description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makinga part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or ground view, andv Figure 2, a cross-section view.

The same letters refer to like parts in both figures.

A A A is the frame or bed of the press, constructed of plank, or other material, properly bolted together, with the two sides connected by the cross-bars'B.

4lhe upper and inner surface of the press-bed is in forni like the top of a raised coffin, inverted.

E is a follower or press-block, placed under'each of the cross-bars B, and operated upon by the handscrews a a.

' b b b, 85o., are hand-screws, operating, through the side flanges 0,'the press-bed.

The press-bed is divided into a graduated scale, transversely, by a succession of parallel lines, the scale being also divided into two sections at the shoulder'.

On the centre or bottom piece of the press are two columns of igures; the left, express the diierent numbers or sizes, and the right column, the interior length ofthe corresponding number or size, the numbers diminisbing lin each section fromr the shoulder'towards the ends.

This scale .may be written near the outer edge of the press, if found more convenient.

The tabular scale attached to the drawings, corresponds with the graduated scale on the press, and iudicates the width and depth of the different sizes.

The top of the coffin is composed of three parts, D, the centre, and C E, the side or sloping parts.

These pieces are so prepared as to fit that part of' the press indicated bythe number and size of coiiin required, e. g., for aNo. 24 (six feet two inches long) colin, the shoulder will be madeon the line at the head v of N o. 24 of the scale'. For the next smaller size, recedeone degree on the scale, making the shoulder on the line of No 23, and in the same manner to the lower and smaller sizes.

Should extraordinary breadth beprequired, make the shoulder onvNo. 24, and widen the pieces 0 and E, if necessary, and shorten at the foot and head.

' The press, being eight feet long, or more, if necessary, and of ample breadth, will admit of any required size.

The parts composing' the coiu-top may be best Y shaped after a graduated pattern, corresponding with the scale on iig. 1', using that part of the pattern indicated by the number of coffin required.

rJ.he parts C D E, having-been properly prepared,

are inserted in the-press, to be lglued and pressed into form. The follower or press-block F is forced down upon the pieces, by the action of the screws a a, and the parts are forced or pressed together at their edges by the action of' the screws, b b 11,850., the-whole so operating as to secure a perfect union of joints, and uniformity and certainty of form.

Figure 3 represents the three bevels, at the head, the shoulders,l and the foot, that at the shoulder being the same as that at the head, which is deemed essential to give good shape to the coffin.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to seciue by Letters Patent, is-

Ihe machine or press herein described and shown, and having upon its bed or frame thegraduated and tabular scale, substantially as specified.

Dated at Batavia, Ill., March 23, A. D. 1869.

OLIVER L. PAYNE.

'Witnessesz N. WoLcoT'r, W. CRAWFORD, 

